Hi. I understand that my situation may be a bit unique. I can only hope that I manage to tighten this script down a bit. It's my first experience with creating cookies. I like your dual password idea. I might just incorporate that into the config file (the admin sets the password to encrypt it with). Also, thanks for turning my eye toward the Crypt::TripleDES module. That will probably be a much nice solution rather than creating my own encryption algorithm. Thanks for your ideas. Take care, Joe